Project Report on Industrial Visit to

HINDUSTAN TIMES

Submitted To
NEHA JAIN
Lecturer
Submitted By
SARABJEET SINGH
M.B.A – III
Sec – “C”
Roll No. 420
 CONTENTS

1. Acknowledgement……………………………………………………………………………. 1

2. Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………. 2

3. History……………………………………………………………………………………………… 3

4. Keywords…………………………………………………………………………………………. 4

5. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………… 5

6. Aim…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7

7. Research methodology……………………………………………………………………… 8

8. Objective of the visit………………………………………………………………………….. 9

9. Overview………………………………………………………………………………………..... 10

10. Ownership & Awards………………………………………………………………………… 11

11. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………... 12
 ACKNOWELDGEMENT

I would like to offer my sincere thanks to our faculty guide Mr. Shiv Sankar and Ms.
Mehar who took the pain to accompany us to the industrial visit to HINDUSTAN TIMES
at Greater Noida.
I would also like to offer my thanks to Mr. Anshuman Nandey an engineer at Hindustan
Times, who helped us to get the detail exposure of the workings of the printing press as a
whole.
At last I would also like to thank my class fellows who made the whole trip really
wonderful with their help and support.

SARABJEET SINGH

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 ABSTRACT

The whole project is based on the detail of the working in the Hindustan Times, which is
basically related to the printing of daily newspaper. The project gives the detail outline of
the process and procedure which is followed while going for newspaper printing. The
abstract of the project is as follows:

Title : Industrial Visit to Hindustan Times

Author : Sarabjeet Singh

Supervisor : Anshuman Nanday

Designation : Engineer

Institution : K.R. Mangalam Institute of Management, New Delhi.

Purpose : The purpose of the project is to have detail analysis of the

Method : A qualitative study is undertaken by using interview technique,

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 HISTORY

Hindustan times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder of Akali movement
and the Shiromani Akali in Punjab.
S.Mangal Singh Gill (Tehsildar) and S.Chanehlal Singh were made an in charge of news paper.
Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya and the Tara singh were among the members of managing
committee. The managing chairman and chief Patron was Sri Sunder Singh Lyallpuri himself.
K.M.Panitkar was its first editor with Devdas Gandhi also in the editor’s panel.The opening
ceremony was preferred by Mahatama Gandhi on September 27, 1924.
The first issue was published from naya bazaar, New Delhi. It contained writing and articles
from C.F Andrews ,St.Nihal Singh ,Maulana Mohammad Ali ,O.R Reddy, T.L Vaswani,Ruchi
Ram Sahni etc.It has its root in Indian Independence movement of first half of twentieth century
and even faced the rated “Hindustan Times contempt care (August Member,1941)” at Allahabad
high court .It was edited at Times by many important people in India including Devdas Gandhi
and Khushwant Singh .Sanjay Narayan has been appointed the editor in chief of the paper and is
due to take over in august 2008.
Hindustan Times (HT) is one of Indian’s leading newspaper, published since 1924 with roots
in , independent movement. Hindustan Times is the Flag ship independence publication of HT
Media Ltd. in 2008; the newspaper reared that with a circulation of 14 million. It was verified by
the audit furrow of circulation making them as the newspaper in India. India readership survey
(IRS) 2008.revealed that HT has a reader ship planning them as the second most widely read
English newspaper after times of India.
Often sisters Publication of Hindustan times are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan Times
(Hindi daily), Nandan (Monthly children magazine) and Kadambani (monthly literacy
magazine).
The media group also owns a radio channel fever and organizes an annual luxury conference
which has featured speakers like designer Pionevon.

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 KEYWORDS

1. OFFSET PRINTING: It is commonly used printing technique where the inked image
is transferred from a plate to rubber blanket and then to the printing surface.

2. PLC: It refers to Programmable Logical Controller, which is a digital computer used for
automation of electromechanical processes such as control of machinery on factory
assembly lines.

3. KRAUSE: It is a German CTP (computer to plate) product. CTP is semi automatic plate
setter which is very simple to operate.

4. FERAG: It refers to a machine operating at Hindustan Times Press which is imported

5. CONVEYOR BELT: It refers to the belt through which the finished product is passed
for distribution purpose. Per conveyor belt consists of 2 Newspapers.

6. CMYK: It is a subtractive color model used in color printing. It stands for CYAN ,
MAGENTA , YELLOW AND KEY(BLACK) and color model describes a formula for
creating other colors by mixing pigment of these colors in various amounts.

7. GROSS COPY COUNTER: It refers to the sensor which senses about the quality
wastage of the Newspapers.

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 INTRODUCTION

It was an awesome experience gained by me after visiting HT press at Greater Noida. It was my
1st educational trip to the press which has its publicity high among all the Newspapers. I saw
their an automatic printing machine which daily prints 6 lakhs copies of the newspaper in
around 24 hours.

The machine FERAG that costs around 25-35 Cr. There I saw that the ratio of labor to automatic
printing system is very less which is less than a half of its value.
It was 2nd half of the day and there were two engineers at that particular time or in that shift .So,
HT engineers divided the students into two sections and me and my group members were under
the guidance of Mr. Anshuman Nanday.

He told us about the working process of all the machines. At the ground floor, there is REEL
STAND area, which has plain white roll of sheets. In this section through programming the
sheets cut into a particular length depending on the size of matter. Then these papers fed into
FERAG machine where arranging and packaging of bundles were done. This is the trip where I
gained something about the printing of the paper.

HT prints 25000 copies of newspaper per hour. In total it publishes 16000000 newspapers
i.e.200000 in the morning and 200000 nights. Newspapers are printed through FERAG machine
which is technology of Switzerland. These are other machines that brought from Germany also.
In the machine the cutting, folding of the papers taking place and put them indifferent folders
having definite numbers of papers. Newspapers are published till 12 am with the bundles of
newspapers also take place by the help of machines.

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The information that has to be printed in the newspaper is saved in the computers and a
command is given to the computer and the printing of the newspapers started. Price of the
newspaper comes on a single copy Rs. 20 – 24, but HT provides it at Rs. 3.50 .This price
managed by HT is due to the advertisement.

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 AIM

To observe, view and analyze the production process of Hindustan Times Newspapers, Greater
Noida.
Basically the production process is related to the production of the newspaper, and it involves all
the preliminary work that is involved in the newspaper printing process. The whole process
work in divided into small parts and each work is handled by different departments accordingly.

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The prime method used for the data collection at the Industrial Visit mainly consists of the
observation method. Any doubts, clarification for the project is to be handled through Interview
Technique.
Data from secondary sources such as internet like (www.google.com,
www.hindustantimes.com) are utilized.

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 OBJECTIVE OF THE VISIT

The main objective of Industrial visit is to know about the management being practiced in the
Hindustan, how the people at HT manage their operation and how resources are arranged.

To know about the supply system and how the demand is met .To know about whether the
concept, which are being taught in various business schools, are applied in the real sense or not.

The industrial visit is being undertaken as a medium which is useful for the practical exposure
towards the working of an industry, its process, and procedures that are to be followed for the
dispatch of the product so manufactured.

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 OVERVIEW

Hindustan Times (HT) is one of the India’s leading newspapers, published since 1924 with roots
n the independence movement.HT is the flagship Publication of HT media Ltd. In 2008, the
newspaper reported that with a (circulation of over 1.14 million).It was certified by the audit
bureau of circulation ranking them as the third largest circulatory daily English newspaper in
India .India readership survey (IRS) 2008, revealed that HT has a readership of (6.6 million)
placing them as the second most widely read English News paper in India after times of India .
It has a wide in northern India (barring southern India); with simultaneous editions from New
Delhi, Mumbai, Luck now, Patna, Ranchi and Kolkata .It is also printed from Bhopal and
Chandigarh.

Other sister publication of Hindustan Times are Mint (English Business Daily) , Hindustan
(Hindi Daily), Nandan (Monthly Magazine) and Kadambani (Monthly Literacy Magazine).The
media group also owns a radio channel Fever and organizes an annual Luxury conference which
has features like Designer Diane Von Frautenberg,Shoemaker Christian laubatin Gucci CEO
Robert Palet and Cartier M.D Patrick Normand Hindustan Times is owned by K.K. Birla branch
of Birla Family. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006. HT has also
launched a youth daily HT next in 2004.
The Mumbai edition was launched on July 2005.

HT Delhi has a daily life style supplement called HT city with a special Weekend edition on
Fridays called ‘shine.com’ on Tuesdays.
Education supplement called ‘HT Horizons’ on Wednesday. Real estate selection called ’HT
estate’ and luxury supplementary ‘HT splurge’ on Saturday.HT Delhi has a magazine called
Branch every Sunday Plus matrimonial section. It also has supplement for each of the 8 zones of
Delhi called ‘HT live’ on different days of the week. After the assignation of Chaitanya kalbag ,
the editorial responsibility was shared by Pankaj Paul and V.Krishna. In August 2008, Sanjay
Narayayan was appointed editor-in-chief and Saurav Halarnbar was appointed managing editor.
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 OWNERSHIP

The Delhi based English news papers HT i.e. part of Birla Group and managed by HT media
Ltd. The K.K Birla group at present owns 69% stakes in HT media, currently valued at Rs. 834
Cr.
When Bhartia joined HT in 1986 she was the 1st women chief executive of rational newspapers.
Shobhana has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha M.P from congress party.

AWARDS

HT has a good track record at the IFRA and has won several awards this year.
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CONCLUSION

The industrial visit to the HT press was an enriching experience. The newspaper is the
inexpensive sources of knowledge and the HT provides a lot of challenging activities to the
students. In small groups the students were guided around the press under the charge of
experienced officers. The students were shown various sections of the press and given plenty of
information starting from the quality of the paper chosen, how the news printed, folding of the
newspaper till the packing process. The resource person also guided the students through a
diagrammatic representation of whole printing process. To live up to the expectations of the
customer some of Newspapers are rejected on the basis of color, contrast etc which is done
through a filter pipe.

The work of the officer was to guide systematic with highly trained stuff. It was a different
experience for me and my group members.
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